Jarrod Skalde will be the Norfolk Admirals' next head coach. Skalde, an assistant under Trent Yawney last year, moved up after Yawney became an assistant coach with the Admirals' parent club, the Anaheim Ducks.Skalde, 43, has five seasons of head coaching...

Hockey:Don't write off the Norfolk Admirals just yet. They'll be back on a plane to Newfoundland, about 2,000 miles away, with their American Hockey League playoff hopes still alive.Andre Petersson scored on a blue-line shot 13:10 into overtime Tuesday,...

Hockey:
The Norfolk Admirals yielded two power-play goals early in the second period and fell 2-1 Wednesday at St. John’s in Newfoundland as the IceCaps squared their AHL Calder Cup Eastern Conference best-of-seven series at one win each.
The series...

Colleges:Men's basketball:Richard Bland College of Petersburg, coached by Kecoughtan High graduate Chuck Moore, has ascended to No. 1 in the National Junior College Athletic Association rankings in its first season.
Its all-freshman roster includes guard...

VIRGINIA BEACH — For the Christopher Newport field hockey team, the “red zone” turned into a danger zone.Bowdoin’s Katie Riley answered Lauren Cheatham’s goal 4:16 into the game with a tally of her own about a mere minute later, and the Polar Bears kept...

Running:Konrad Steck, 14, who recently helped Lafayette High win the state Group 3A championship in cross country, broke his older brother’s all-time Colonial Road Runners record for the 14-and-under age group.
In Saturday’s Governor’s Land 5K in the...

Kelsey Smither, 20, of Suffolk, a rising junior at Old Dominion, recently was named to the United States Under-21 Junior World Cup team. She is on the team that will compete in Monchengladbach, Germany, from July 27-Aug. 4, in an event held every four...

YORK — Tabb High's field hockey program is lucky to have Macy Peebles as its first All-American in several years. Peebles, the Daily Press All-Stars Field Hockey Player of the Year, is a great ambassador for the program because she feels so lucky to...

They were supposed to be headed to a Super Bowl party. But after blowing a third-period lead and dropping a 4-2 decision to Springfield on Feb. 5, the Norfolk Admirals decided to forget about the New England Patriots and the New York Giants and focus...

Anthony Honey didn't even wait until the first play from scrimmage to serve notice that 2011 was going to be a big football season for him. He did it on the opening kickoff.
Honey, a 5-foot-10, 180-pound senior, returned the kick 52 yards to set up the...

Pete Rose, 73, still wants back in baseball, and he has formally asked for forgiveness. Rose submitted a request to be reinstated to MLB commissioner Rob Manfred, who says he'll review the Dowd report and everything else that led to then-commissioner Bart...

The N.C. State fans were merciless to Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim a day after he and his program were hit with sanctions by the NCAA for numerous violations, booing Boeheim during introductions and singing the chorus from the song...

Hartford Picked Fourth In Baseball PollHartford was picked fourth in the America East preseason baseball coaches' poll. Stony Brook was chosen first in a vote of the league's seven head coaches who were not allowed to vote for their own team. Maine...

John Ondrasik is holding the Stanley Cup.
The pop-rock musician has just finished coaching a team to a big hockey win and is walking across the ice to deliver sports' most famous trophy, his shoes stepping tentatively toward a far face-off circle.
OK,...

Here are some of the more interesting deals, websites and other travel tidbits that came across our desk recently:
Jekyll Island Club Hotel in Georgia is offering a Big Band Dance Weekend package Feb. 20-22. Priced from $699 per couple, it includes two...

STORRS – With the long wait for entry into Hockey East over and his team having recorded a few signature victories that captured the state's attention, UConn coach Mike Cavanaugh is enjoying his program's newfound relevance. In crowded public settings, he...

It’s showtime, George McCaskey. It’s your spotlight. It’s your decision. It's your franchise.
This is not Marc Trestman’s deal on Mel Tucker. This is not Phil Emery’s deal on Trestman. This is not Ted Phillips’ deal on Emery.
This is your call on...

Trinity Dominates Awards
Trinity dominated the NESCAC field hockey awards: Sophie Doering (defensive player of the year), Kelcie Finn (rookie of the year) and Anne Parmenter (coach of the year). Finn, Doering and Sophie Fitzpatrick were named to the...

Gordie Howe, a Hall of Famer known to many as “Mr. Hockey,” is showing signs of improvement after suffering a stroke that left him without some function on one side of his body, his family said Wednesday.
The 86-year-old Howe, who spent the bulk of his...